Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Reuters products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Reuters over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Docklands, London region.

 Reuters
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank373555
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+20
Matching contract IT job ads161226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London3.125 %3.125 %2.030 %
As % of the Vendors category7.240 %6.030 %3.939 %
Daily rates quoted1688
Average daily rate£397£388£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.380 %+6.890 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£325£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£458£465
UK excluding London average daily rate£358£388£400
% change year-on-year
-7.740 %-3.120 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.25-£18.28
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
221199660
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London43.16 %51.82 %51.52 %
Daily rates quoted12990420
Average daily rate£425£450£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.550 %-14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£250£274
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£599£575£700
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£350£360
% change year-on-year
-5.710 %-2.770 %
Hourly rates quoted6221
Average hourly rate£19.00£15.75£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.63 %-21.25 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£15.55£18.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£26.65£15.95£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£21.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %+5.000 %
Reuters LondonReuters
London

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Reuters Group PLC.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Reuters across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Docklands, London Reuters Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Reuters across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Reuters Daily Rate Trend

Reuters
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reuters across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Docklands, London Reuters Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Reuters across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Reuters Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Reuters also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Reuters.

113 (59.09 %)Bloomberg
211 (50.00 %)Banking
310 (45.45 %)Investment Banking
49 (40.91 %)Front Office
58 (36.36 %)Finance
58 (36.36 %)UNIX
66 (27.27 %)Windows
66 (27.27 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
66 (27.27 %)Derivative
75 (22.73 %)Business Analysis
75 (22.73 %)Spring
75 (22.73 %)Linux
75 (22.73 %)Java
84 (18.18 %)Oracle
84 (18.18 %)Sybase
84 (18.18 %)JNI
84 (18.18 %)Hibernate
84 (18.18 %)User Acceptance Testing
93 (13.64 %)Electronic Trading
93 (13.64 %)Reference Data
93 (13.64 %)SQL
93 (13.64 %)C++
102 (9.091 %)C#
102 (9.091 %)VBA
102 (9.091 %)SQL Server
102 (9.091 %)MS Office
102 (9.091 %)Project Management
102 (9.091 %)Tomcat
102 (9.091 %)JMS
102 (9.091 %)Mathematics

Reuters
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Reuters also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Reuters. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (22.73 %)Spring
24 (18.18 %)JNI
24 (18.18 %)Hibernate
32 (9.091 %)JMS
32 (9.091 %)Adobe Flex
41 (4.545 %)Java SE
41 (4.545 %)Middleware
41 (4.545 %).NET
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (9.091 %)Tomcat
21 (4.545 %)SharePoint
21 (4.545 %)Rendezvous
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (9.091 %)MS Office
21 (4.545 %)Spreadsheet
21 (4.545 %)MS Excel
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (9.091 %)RMDS
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (9.091 %)Firewall
21 (4.545 %)LAN
21 (4.545 %)WAN
21 (4.545 %)TCP/IP
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (13.64 %)Reference Data
22 (9.091 %)SQL Server
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (4.545 %)Visual Studio
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
111 (50.00 %)Banking
210 (45.45 %)Investment Banking
39 (40.91 %)Front Office
48 (36.36 %)Finance
51 (4.545 %)Back Office
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (27.27 %)Developer
16 (27.27 %)Analyst
24 (18.18 %)Java Developer
33 (13.64 %)Business Analyst
33 (13.64 %)Tester
33 (13.64 %)Functional Tester
42 (9.091 %)Project Manager
42 (9.091 %)Technical Analyst
42 (9.091 %)Quantitative Developer
51 (4.545 %)RAD Developer
51 (4.545 %)Market Data Engineer
51 (4.545 %)IT Administrator
51 (4.545 %)Project Analyst
51 (4.545 %)Support Analyst
51 (4.545 %)Administrator
51 (4.545 %)Excel Developer
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (27.27 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 (27.27 %)Derivative
22 (9.091 %)Mathematics
22 (9.091 %)Fixed Income
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18 (36.36 %)UNIX
26 (27.27 %)Windows
35 (22.73 %)Linux
41 (4.545 %)Red Hat Linux
41 (4.545 %)Windows XP
41 (4.545 %)Solaris
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (22.73 %)Business Analysis
24 (18.18 %)User Acceptance Testing
33 (13.64 %)Electronic Trading
42 (9.091 %)Project Management
42 (9.091 %)Regression Testing
42 (9.091 %)System Testing
42 (9.091 %)Matrix Management
51 (4.545 %)Asset Management
51 (4.545 %)Systems Analysis
51 (4.545 %)Project Planning
51 (4.545 %)OOP
51 (4.545 %)OO
51 (4.545 %)RAD
51 (4.545 %)RUP
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (22.73 %)Java
23 (13.64 %)SQL
23 (13.64 %)C++
32 (9.091 %)C#
32 (9.091 %)VBA
41 (4.545 %)Shell Script
41 (4.545 %)Perl
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (9.091 %)Degree
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (4.545 %)QA
11 (4.545 %)SLA
Docklands, London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113 (59.09 %)Bloomberg
24 (18.18 %)Oracle
24 (18.18 %)Sybase
32 (9.091 %)Adobe
32 (9.091 %)FaceTime
32 (9.091 %)GoldenSource
41 (4.545 %)Wall Street Systems
41 (4.545 %)Telerate
41 (4.545 %)Microsoft
41 (4.545 %)Remedy
41 (4.545 %)Red Hat
41 (4.545 %)TIBCO